From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andy Furniss Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 20:52:56 +0000 Subject: Re: Why are my cburst settings ignored? Message-Id: <51E30FA8.9020603@gmail.com> List-Id: References: <1988904.abTyuc7JXo@morgaine> In-Reply-To: <1988904.abTyuc7JXo@morgaine> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org Andrew Beverley wrote: > On Sun, 2013-07-14 at 19:33 +0200, maillinglistredcap@gmx.de wrote: >> Thanks Andrew and Andy, > > You're welcome. > >> Just out of curiosity, how is traffic handled that isn't assigned to any class >> in the qdisc tree when you do not specify a default class? My assumptions was >> that such pakets are simply be dropped, which is why I also shaped lan traffic. > > AFAIK it just bypasses the whole of the qdisc and therefore goes through > the networking system completely unaffected. In the case of local LAN > traffic that you don't want to shape (which is not affected by any > associated bandwidth constraints) you can therefore keep it out of the > qdisc completely (although make sure you're not accidentally capturing > it with a "default" parameter). Yea, though it's still counted by HTB. I should really specify "just for HTB" whenever I go on about not using default and arp. HFSC is the opposite and does drop unclassified - so you really need a default, or to be careful to make sure arp is classified.